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Dateline: 10th May, 2004
The Almeida: September '04 to April '05 Brighton RockMichael Attenborough will direct the world première of Giles Havergal's dramatisation of Graham Greene's classic novel, Brighton Rock. With original music by John Barry and lyrics by Don Black, Brighton Rock will open at the Almeida on 20th September with press night on Tuesday 5th October and will run until 13th November. Designs are by Lez Brotherston, with lighting by Tim Mitchell, musical direction and arrangements by Steven Edis, choreography by Karen Bruce, sound by John Leonard and fights by Terry King. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of 1930's Brighton. Pinky, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Caught up in the violence of the weekend, the only incriminating witness to the murder is Rose, a 16 year old Catholic girl with a memory for faces and eyes only for Pinky. A wedding would buy her silence, but though Pinky doesn't believe in love and marriage. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing music hall artiste Ida Arnold, who is determined to see justice done. Brighton Rock is a thrilling study of gangland rivalry and the psychology of a psychotic seventeen year old Catholic boy. The Earthly Paradise Robert Delamere will direct the world première of Peter Whelan's The Earthly Paradise. Opening on 18th November, with press night on Wednesday 24th November, The Earthly Paradise runs until 8th January 2005. When Topsy - poet and designer William Morris - takes a dreamy Oxfordshire manor house for the summer of 1871 the whisper goes round that it is to make the very public affair between his wife Janey and close friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti less conspicuous. The tensions between the three of them create an emotional undertow that keeps threatening to break surface. When Morris leaves them to their sanctuary and goes abroad as the alchemy of love works unexpected changes. Macbeth John Caird will direct Almeida Associate Simon Russell Beale in the title role of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Macbeth will have its first performance on 13th January 2005 with press night on Thursday 20th January and will run until 5th March. Simon Russell Beale will make his Almeida debut playing Macbeth. Hedda Gabler Richard Eyre will direct his new version of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler with Eve Best playing the title role. Opening on 10th March with press night on Wednesday 16th March, Hedda Gabler will run until 30th April. Designs are by Rob Howell and lighting is by Peter Mumford. Festen Rufus Norris' critically acclaimed production of David Eldridge's Festen will transfer to the West End this Autumn. Produced in the West End by Marla Rubin and Bill Kenwright, Festen has set designs by Ian MacNeil, costume designs by Joan Wadge, lighting by Jean Kalman, music by Orlando Gough and sound by Paul Arditti. David Eldridge's adaptation of the original Dogme film opened at the Almeida in March this year and has played to capacity audiences throughout the run. Further details of this transfer will be announced soon. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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